But they still leave too much of the decision making about use of screen space to the user. Jesse Kuhnert praises Gmail for removing those decisions from you and I must say I’ve never wished I could resize bits of the Gmail UI. Could this strategy work for a wider range of desktop apps too?

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But he eventually recants when one of the comments points out that the original pet peeve with Yahoo Mail Beta is easily fixed. He concludes his response with, “Admittedly it is much easier to criticize than it is to create elegant UIâ€™s yourself.”